so my question to the people who discredit jones's wins is who else should he have fought? Name me five opponents who are better than evans, machida, rua, page, and vitor. The fact is he fought the best that the division had to offer and beat them all.

If anything Jon Jones is underrated by the mouthbreathers on this site.

Before every fight he was going to get manhandled (Jon Jones has never seen wrestling like this guy's, or Jon Jones has never had to deal with a guy with this level of striking ...). And he blew through every one of them. And people still start stupid threads like this one.

Cormier has never been at 205 and has beaten Josh Barnett, who frankly hasn't exactly been fighting the upper echelon of the sport; Bigfoot, a guy who has always been regarded as a fighter who is almost there, but inconsistent; and tired old Mir.

Gus has the best resume out of all of them and has to wait his turn only because of this garbage fight that Sonnen talked his way into after old man Henderson hurt his knee. I have zero doubts that after Jones wins Saturday night, he's fighting Gus in the fall (if not sooner if this is a quick one).

There isn't one other fighter in the UFC (outside of Anderson Silva) who has so thoroughly dominated his peers.

Has anyone fought more championship caliber opponents? He beat the reigning UFC Champion and then demolished 4 former Light Heavyweight Champs. If he's overrated, give me your analysis of another UFC Champion who deserves (in your mind) to be considered above JBJ.

cecils_pupils - Jones is NOT overrated. When his career is over he will go down in the history books as the greatest MMA fighter of all time. After dominating LHW he will destroy Anderson Silva, then dominate the HW division.

It's easy to say he is overrated right now, he has only 18 total pro fights in five years. Andersons career has spanned 15 years and 37 pro fights.

After only 5 years Jones is clearly in the top 3 pound-for-pound fighters.

Clearly NOT overrated.

He won't fight Anderson. Too much risk if he loses, and Anderson has done better against their common opponents.

Jones has fought and beat everyone the ufc has given him. I believe for the most part, he finished everyone too. There isnt a fight that he's turned down. The "young" guys will be getting there chance.

As for a person, I am not sold on him. I think there is quick about the person he is, but not the fighter he is

People just look at the names but in the context it's not what people make it out to be. The issue is the new fans only look at paper and records they can't comprehend anything beyond that, people lost the ability to actually think and objectively view something within the proper context

I'd argue that Lyoto and Rashad were at their peaks when they fought JBJ. Page, Shogun, and Vitor are better than most of the LHW in the UFC. I don't think Glover and Gus have a snowballs chance in hell of beating JBJ. Gus couldn't handle Phil Davis so what do you think Jon is going to do to him on the ground? Glover's gas tank has looked suspect in last two fights. That doesn't scream title contender in my opinion. Cormier presents an interesting challenge, but I can see JBJ picking him apart from the outside until he gets tired and then getting mauled on the ground for a potential finish. All these present interesting fights for JBJ, but I just don't see how any present any threat to JBJ's current reign as champ.

Before Jon Jones the light heavyweight division was the deepest division in the UFC but now that He cleaned it out it's now considered the weakest division sit back and think about that for a second you haters are going out discredit his wins and claimed they were against "old and tired fighters really but now you're just reaching

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